Door and hinge construction for hay doors



March 10. 1925.

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. struction wherein the doors may Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. BERGH, OF HAWAB/DEN, IOWA.

noon AND HINGE cons'rnoo'rroiv FOR HAY DOORS.

Application filed May 5, 1924. Serial No. 711,060.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known thatI, JOHN F. Bnncn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hawarden, in the county of Sioux and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Door and Hinge Constructions for Hay Doors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to barn door constructions and is adaptable particularly to the doors of a hay loft.

It is my object to provide a door and hinge construction wherein the doors may extend to the roof of a barn and when 0 ened outwardly will assume such a position that their opening will not be interfered with by the projecting gable ends.

Another object is to provide such a door and binge construction which is of simple, durable and substantial construction.

A further object is to provide such a conbe readily opened and locked in open position from the inside of the hay loft without it being necessary for the person opening'the door. to reach out any considerable distance.

Another object is r to provide a hinge adaptable to beused with such adoorconstruction, and which, when folded for shipment, will occupy a minimum amount of s ace.

Vith these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement-and combination of the various parts of my device, whereby the objects contemplatcd fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a portionof a barn with my invention embodied therein.

Fig. 2.is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2 -2 of Fig. 1, one of the doors being shown partially opened.

Fig. 8 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3'-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. l is a perspective view of a hinge in closed'position, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view open position, the braces being of a hinge in wardly.

In the ordinary'hay loftit is desirable to extend the doors entirely to the roof in order that the hay may be packed to the highest possible level, and in order that a carriage and rail may be utilized in raising as to swing downwardly.

are attained, as hereinafter more folded inthe-hay, which is preferably positioned just under the peak of the roof.

In Fig. 1 I have shown a barn in which the doors are so constructed, the front of the barn being shown at 10, the projecting gable ends of the roof at Hand the carriage rail at 12. I

It will be noted that were the doors, 13, hinged with the ordinary type of binge that it would be impossible to swing them outwardly very far before the inclined edge of the doors would contact with the gable, 11. In order to obviate this difficulty, doors have been constructed so low that they may be swung entirely around on their hinges without entering the plane of the roof.

Another method for solving the problem has been to form the doors in four sections, the triangular portions above being severed from the rest of the doors and hinged so as to fold downwardly.

It will be seen that the first construction is undesirable because the door should preferably be extended to the roof in order to obtain the advantages already mentioned.

The second construction involves the useof four piece doors and necessitates more time and labor in closing the doors.

A further method of solving the diiliculty, and one which has been extensively used, is the hinging of the doors at the bottom so The objectionable feature of this construction lies in the weight of the doors, it being necessary in most instances to employ a team and a block and tackle to raise the doors to closed position. V

My-invention is designed to eliminate all of these objections and to provide a structure in which the doors may be opened without the employmentof a great amount of force. I have found in the use of a. full size pair of doors constructed in accordance with my invention that a small child may readily open and close the doors.

My improved hinge construction includes the members, A and B, each of which comprises an arm, 14, adapted to be bolted to the door, or the side of a barn, as the case may be, and an outwardly extending arm,

15, having at its end the ordinary loops, 16,

15, and extend diagonally to the arms, 14;,

the door.

where the openings, 19, are provided, registering with the openings, 20, in the arms, 14, for receiving a bolt which servesto-secure the braces to the arms, 1%, and to-secure the entire hinge to the door or side of the barn. Openings, 21 and 22 in the outer and inner ends, respectively, of the arms, 14:, are provided for receiving bolts.

In order to support the weight of the door it isnecessary to provide the braces, which I will now describe. The member, A, has the brace, 23, secured to the outer end of the arm, 15, by the-same rivet, 24, which secures the brace, 18. The brace, 23, extends upwardly at an angle and has the opening, 25, to receive a bolt. The brace, 26, is secured to the arm, 15, of the member, B, in the same manner as the brace, 23, is secured to the member,A, "and extends downwardly 'at'an angle. "When the hinge is insta led, the member,'A, is bolted to the side of the barn by means of bolts, 27, and the member, B, is likewise securedto .The brace, 23, is secured to "the side of the harm-and the brace, 26, is secured to the door.

It will be seen that the weight of the door will be transmitted diagonally =upward through the braces, 26 and 23,- respectively, to the side of the barn regardless 'of the position of'the door.

28, which are pivwhich are designed to be hooked into the screw eyes 33, on the door. The upper end of the doors may be secured-in =closed position'by thespringlocking bo ts, 34, which may be of ordinary construction.

hen-it is desired to open the doors, the

. latches, 3a and .31, are released and the 'doorsswung outwardly until they have assumed the position shown in Fig. 2. The

hook, 28,.may then be released from its retain1ng'eye,'3O, and'graspedas shown in'Fig.

'2 for swinging the doors to their complete open position, as shown in-Fig. 3 at the left hand side of the figure. The book, 28, may then/be hooked into the eye, 35, secured to the "side of the barn iir-order to'ho'ld the so positioned that they are readily accesdoors in open positin.

* It will be noted .[that the hooks, 28, are

siblef'lrom the door opening-without necessitating the arm of a person being extend- I6(l veryfar. tioned that when the door has been opened Litwvill lie in a plane outside of the gable of The hinge pivotsare'so posi- "the' roof. The separating ofthe door from the side of the barn'as "it swings outwardly allows access tothe hook, 28, 111 order to ofthe door to opencomplete the movement position and to lock it in such position. By positioning the hooks, 28, on the outside of the door they are brought to the correct position when the door is swung around on it hinges.

The hinges areadesigned to occupy the least amount, of space when being shipped, and for this purpose the braces, 23 and 26, are pivoted so as to swing to the position shown in Fig. 5, in which position the hinge members all lie in the same plane.

'The hinge is constructed in the cheapest possible manner with a view at the same time ofobtaining the maximum strength when it is installed, and in this connection, the braces, 18, are not riveted tothe members, 14s, but are adapted to be securedthereto bythe same bolt which holds the hinge to the door, or the side of the barn, as the case may be.

It will-be seen that my. improved hinge construction is designed to bearthe weight of a heavy door and "to eliminate the' disadvantages of doors constructed as explained heretofore.

my invention without departing from the realspirit and purpose of-myinvention, and it is my intention to cover by my claims any modified forms of structure *or use of me chanical equivalents which may be reasonably included within their scope.

I claim as my invention:

1. A hinge for barn doors comprisingtwo L-shaped members of strap metal, each having a main and lateral arm, the lateral arms being hinged together "at their ends braces connecting the main and lateral arms of each L-shaped member and secured to the lateral arms near the hinge pivots by means of rivets, and second braces secured to the lateral arms by means of the said rivets, said second braces being movable to positions extendingdiagonally relative to the lateral arms to-tho planes ofthe-ma-in arms, andbeing' foldableto positions in alignment with the lateral arms.

2. -A hinge for barn doors comprising two L-shaped membersofstrapmetal, each comprising a-main and lateral arm; the ends of the lateral arms being provided with hinge loops rolled in a direction away from the main arn1s,"the hinge loops registering and being pinned together to form. a' hinge joint such that when the hinge is in closed position, the lateral arms will be positioned adjacent each other with a space substantially equal to the'diameter of the hinge pin between them, braces extending "diagonally from the main arms to the lateral arms and secured thereto near the hinge axis by rivets, and movable braces secured to the lateral arms by, means of said rivets, occupying the space between the lateral arms when in closed position, said movable braces being movable to position in alignment with the lateral arms or to position inclined away therefrom.

3. A hinge for barn doors comprising two members adapted to lie in the same plane when the hinge is closed, each of said members having laterallyextending arms hinged together at their ends, braces extending between the laterally-extending arms near the hinge axis and those portions of the hinge which lie in the same plane when the hinge is in closed position, and braces extending from the respective laterally-projecting arms of the hinge members diagonally upward and diagonally downward respectively to the first mentioned plane of the hinge members, said last mentioned braces being pivoted and movable to a position in alignment with the laterally-projecting arms.

4. A hinge for barn doors comprising two members adapted to lie in the same plane when the hinge is closed, each of said nrembers having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their ends, and braces extending from the respective laterally-projecting arms of the hinge members diagonally upward and diagonally downward respective ly to the first mentioned plane of the hinge members, said braces being pivoted and movable to a position in alignment with the laterally-projecting arms.

Signed at Hawarden, in the county of Sioux, and State of Iowa, this 28th day of April, 1924.

JOHN F. BERGH. 

